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" Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. "
Leo Tolstoy
Am
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" Boredom: the desire for desires. "
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" Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. "
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" Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
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" He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. "
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" Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. "
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" An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. "
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" The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. "
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" Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. "
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" All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. "
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" Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. "
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" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "
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" A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. "
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" The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. "
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" If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. "
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